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哈佛大学世界闻名,培养了8位美国总统和众多的美国名人,很难想象这所大学最初只有一名老师及9名学生,创办之初最大的一笔捐赠来自一位剑桥大学的毕业生——约翰·哈佛(John Harvard)。大手笔捐赠1637年冬,一位英国剑桥大学的毕业生移民到了美洲新大陆。他时年29岁,刚结婚不久,尚没有孩子。他的名字叫约翰·哈佛,来自伦敦。他住在查理斯镇,与那所新成立的学院(当时尚没有正式的校名)的所在地中间隔着一条河,河的名字叫查理斯河。约翰·哈佛当时的梦想是成为查理斯镇教堂的助理牧师。可惜他在新大陆活了不到一年。1638年9月,
Harvard University world-renowned, trained eight US presidents and many celebrities, it is difficult to imagine the university initially had only one teacher and nine students, the largest ever since the start of a donation from a Cambridge University graduate - - John Harvard. Generous donations In the winter of 1637, a graduate from Cambridge, England, immigrated to the New World of America. He was 29 years old and soon after getting married, he had no children yet. His name is John Harvard, from London. He lives in the town of Charleston, separated from the site of the newly formed college (which did not yet have a formal school name) by a river named Charles River. John Harvard’s dream at that time was to become an assistant pastor of Charles Church. Unfortunately, he lived in the New World for less than a year. In September 1638,